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Wanted: Topics for January
🕑 Added 2021-12-10 01:14:07 +0000 UTCThis is the voting post for next January's articles.
Please choose one topic from each of the three lists below, and reply with the respective letter and number of your two chosen topics in the comments below. Voting ends on 11:59 PM PST on December 21st.
Topics marked with the asterisk (*) have been chosen by backers at the $10-a-month tier. They will be available for voting this month only, unless they are suggested again for next February.
Please reply with your choices in the comments below.
A Soldier's Guide to the Infinite Sea
A) Trade and Commerce: A description of the major trade routes in the Infinite Sea, as well as an overview of which power imports and exports what, and how this shapes their foreign policy.
B) Garing, Gutierrez, and Truscott - A History: A brief history of GG&T, from its humble beginnings during the Petty Kingdoms era, through its establishment as a major armsmaking firm during the Wars of Unification, to its current status as the Unified Kingdom's largest gunmaker.
C) Antagia's Rebellion Pt 2: Having covered the root causes of Eugen of Antagia's rebellion, we move on to the beginning of the rebellion itself, as well as the last days of the Octovian Empire.
D) The Saintly Martyrs: An overview of the worship of the Saints in the Northern Kingdoms, including biographies of selected Sainted Martyrs, iconography, and cosmology.
E) Old Calligia - What We Know: The Kian poet J'eanne Lieux once said that "The only thing we know about Old Calligia are the lies". While not entirely true, very little of the long-gone northern realm has survived. This essay from the University of San'heu attempts to put together the pieces.
F) Warfare Then and Now: A relatively broad overview of the history of war and warfare in the Infinite Sea, taken from a part of a Callindrian children's book.
G) Edmund Garing, In His Own Words: An autobiographical account of the junior partner of GG&T, edited by the Countess of Welles for her report on the War in Antar.
H) Clerks and Commoners: Selections from a children's book written for the scions of the Tierran nobility, meant as their first real education in the classes and dynamics of the Baneless classes.
I) Tierra - Her Peoples and History: A "brief" overview of Tierra's ethnic groups, and how they have influenced Tierran history since the days of first settlement.
J) A Report on Tutors and Tutelage: Commissioned by the Royal University of Aetoria, this report investigates the education baneblooded children receive before they are admitted to the University itself.
K) A Call to Arms to the Faithful of the Tree: A religious tract summarising the worship of the Tree of Life, and calling for a renewed age of religious devotion in an age of Takaran secularism.
L) The Compleat Knight: A somewhat tongue-in-cheek guide to the behaviours expected of a Knight of the Red.
M) The Senior Service: A rather self-serving pamphlet extolling the virtues of the Royal Tierran Navy in the context of the army's new prominence following the Dozen Years' War.
*N) On the Use of the Bane as an Implement of Healing: An overview of the mechanics of banehealing, and how it's used by the Orders of the Blue.
*O) Notice to the Territories Under Military Administration: A pamphlet intended to explain the realities of the Tierran occupation to the residents of southern Antar - written evidently before it was realised that most Antari were illiterate.
*P) Arms of Legend: From the warswords of the great Takaran families to the arms of Saint Stanislaus to the sword of state of the Tierran Crown, baneruned weapons have cut a place in history. Here are some of their stories.
*Q) Voices of Discontent: A collection of excerpts, pamphlets and transcripts collected in the aftermath of the Aetorian riots of 616.
*R) House Rendower- Its Origins and Rise: A brief history of the Tierran royal house, from its beginnings in Octovia to its establishment as the rulers of Aetoria.
*S) Addendum - Means of Inheritance: Attached to the Takaran Ministry of Barbarian Affairs' Instructions to Traders and Travellers, this document provides a brief overview of systems of succession and inheritance throughout the Northern Kingdoms.
An Adventurer's Guide to the Fledgling Realms
1) Great Battles of the Fledgling Realms Pt 3: There have been many battles in the history of the Fledgling Realms - not just between heroes, but between armies. These are a handful of those which have been remembered.
*2) Festivals of the Fledgling Realms Pt 1: Some of the festival days celebrated in the Concordat, from the universally observed to the local.
*3) Spies of the Fledgling Realms: Formal intelligence services are rare in the Fledgling Realms, but that does not mean organisations and governments do not need spies.
A Creator's Guide to Writing and Worldbuilding
A1) Using Genre Conventions: Every genre comes with its own traditions and conventions. Some of them can be helpful, others... less so. How do you tell the former from the latter?
A2) Ordering a Society, Pt 6a: So, we've covered the basics of worldbuilding an economy? But what about the more complicated stuff?
A3) Ordering a Society, Pt 7: So, we've talked about how people worship, and how they eat, but how about how they are governed?
Comments
Paul Wang
So, Part 2 of Antagia's Rebellion, Great Battles Pt 3, and even more on economics (which may or may not eventually get me yelled at by an actual economist).
Peter
C, 2, A3 (Also I don't think there's any pressing need to give the House Rendower article a permanent place on this list like some people are suggesting. The list of permanent articles is already somewhat overfilled as is, and the article can always just be suggested again at some point in the future. Also it doesn't seem like it would be entirely fair to the other $10 voters.)
